"Computer scientists are going to have the same kinds of battles that physicists did amidst the fallout of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,"
I hadn't actually thought of it this way, but it's a good point. If in the future I find myself coding something dubious for a government or corporation, what is the correct ethical choice?
Alien message decrypted: "Greetings. I am the Democratic, peaceloving, and openminded President Eroeg W. Hsub, from the plant Htrae. We will allow your planet to continue to produce weapons of Galatic Destruction, instead of wiping your puny solar system off the map.
Personal video recorders like TiVo mock everything a television network is about. The devices let viewers thumb their noses at program schedules and, even worse, fast-forward past commercials. To many at the networks and studios, it is a cruel joke that could drive them out of business.
I think the cruel joke is the horrible load of advertising I'm put through to watch generally tasteless, unorginal, mediocre programming. If the TV networks can't adapt to the new style of TV, then they deserve to go out of business.
Oh no! Scientific experiments revealing the truth! The horror of having to deal with the consequences of spitting toxic shit at unnatural rates into the air for centuries! Let's burn their textbooks, lest they try to save the environment!
Seriously, these games need to be made so they have a real point, and so that people will not get so attached to them. I'm sick of seeing my friends drop out of classes because they'd rather wait two hours for an imaginary dragon to spawn so they can cast the same spell over and over again and after another half hour they die and sit around waiting for someone to resurrect them.
I have a friend who's 65th level on EQ. (Currently the highest possible so he says proudly). He's also a year behind in his studies, and has had bouts of depression and alchololism (due to his lack of social life) for the past three years.
Pardon the sudden rant, but why can't there be an actuall MMOG that people can spend, oh, 1-3 hours on a week instead of 10-30 hours a week and still have fun.
I hope you're right..
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Dumb companies will get smart or die. Stupid laws will be killed or replaced.
I'd really like to believe this, but then I look at corporate welfare(often the saving of dumb companies) and I look at the laws being passed by people completing out of touch(Napster's not a glamorized FTP program! It's criminal, not sharing!(Or maybe sharing is criminal!))
Many applications involve the user going through a set of steps, and tabs can help the user understand where he is in the process, and allow him to skip forward or jump backwards if necessary. I think tabs are generally accepted in most applications nowadays as way of controlling and guiding program flow.
What is more of a debate where I work is if pagination is better than scrolling. (I vote scrolling for CTRl+F purposes)
Pardon the flame, but all these laws are also good for realizing that a divine power is a hoax as well.
The art of misinformation is similar no matter what the field, whether it's voodoo science or attempting to justify something that can't be proven like the mythology of religion.
Censoring doesn't help. Kids are smarter than you think.
What the real problem is, is that adults find really horrible things entertaining (World's Scariest Animal Attacks III) that are NOT like real life. (Or at least, I've never been attacked by anything more fierce than a mosquito) It's the media we need to protect the kids from, not real life.
Your real fear is that we're protecting them from their own emotions, and I fear that too.
I agree. In fact, I don't understand the whole blogging thing, and I've gotten pretty deep into the cyberworld.
Anytime I read an article on blogging, I wonder why:
A:) I've never met anyone personally who talks about them.
and B:) I've never, in all my research and surfing time, come across one. (Other than Dave Barry's, but that was from the/. story and I didn't stay long.)
So I think I'll just ignore them until they go away, like I did with the Y2K thing.
but any innovation slowdown in the U.S., coupled with the economic realities of war and the eventual arrival of more overseas competition, will affect CEO jobs, tens of thousands of tech workers, and possibly the entire nation's standard of living.
R2! We're doomed! This is all your fault! Help, I think I'm melting!
Maine's education system is in terrible shape. Many schools are too small, many teachers are underpaid, and there's little funding for books and repairs for any of the counties here.
Gov. King was not a bad Governer, but his insistance that the state pay money so that middle schoolers could have laptops even stupified my liberal mind.
Those students do not need laptops! They need good teachers! They need nutritious food programs! They need cultural programs! I've spoken with many students who could care less about their laptops. They're in frickin' middle school. Their homework is algebra, not write a ten page research paper.
This was simply a program put in place to show that the state cared about it's education and pretend that their children weren't tools because they could use a laptop, basically a 'I don't know what to do so let's buy something exciting' move.
Slashdot Mirror
Phase 1:All telemarketers stop for n months.
Phase 2: No fines = no funds to enforce law.
Phase 3: Resume telemarketing
Phase 4: Profit!
TimBrown233: Father, forgive me, for I have sinned.
TheRevster31: Do not be disheartened, child, for Satan, also known as the Hun in your case, tempts us at all hours.
And now this link is /.ed. What server shall we destory next, Brain?
"Computer scientists are going to have the same kinds of battles that physicists did amidst the fallout of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,"
I hadn't actually thought of it this way, but it's a good point. If in the future I find myself coding something dubious for a government or corporation, what is the correct ethical choice?
*planet
Alien message decrypted: "Greetings. I am the Democratic, peaceloving, and openminded President Eroeg W. Hsub, from the plant Htrae. We will allow your planet to continue to produce weapons of Galatic Destruction, instead of wiping your puny solar system off the map.
There is no Matrix Special Edition.
Woah.
Personal video recorders like TiVo mock everything a television network is about. The devices let viewers thumb their noses at program schedules and, even worse, fast-forward past commercials. To many at the networks and studios, it is a cruel joke that could drive them out of business.
I think the cruel joke is the horrible load of advertising I'm put through to watch generally tasteless, unorginal, mediocre programming. If the TV networks can't adapt to the new style of TV, then they deserve to go out of business.
Oh no! Scientific experiments revealing the truth! The horror of having to deal with the consequences of spitting toxic shit at unnatural rates into the air for centuries! Let's burn their textbooks, lest they try to save the environment!
The only unpaid internships I've seen advertised are for poor research groups and such.
I second number 0.
Massively Multiplayer Online ChatRoom ;)
Seriously, these games need to be made so they have a real point, and so that people will not get so attached to them. I'm sick of seeing my friends drop out of classes because they'd rather wait two hours for an imaginary dragon to spawn so they can cast the same spell over and over again and after another half hour they die and sit around waiting for someone to resurrect them.
I have a friend who's 65th level on EQ. (Currently the highest possible so he says proudly). He's also a year behind in his studies, and has had bouts of depression and alchololism (due to his lack of social life) for the past three years.
Pardon the sudden rant, but why can't there be an actuall MMOG that people can spend, oh, 1-3 hours on a week instead of 10-30 hours a week and still have fun.
Dumb companies will get smart or die. Stupid laws will be killed or replaced.
I'd really like to believe this, but then I look at corporate welfare(often the saving of dumb companies) and I look at the laws being passed by people completing out of touch(Napster's not a glamorized FTP program! It's criminal, not sharing!(Or maybe sharing is criminal!))
It's kind of depressing.
...Help the flow of a web application.
Many applications involve the user going through a set of steps, and tabs can help the user understand where he is in the process, and allow him to skip forward or jump backwards if necessary. I think tabs are generally accepted in most applications nowadays as way of controlling and guiding program flow.
What is more of a debate where I work is if pagination is better than scrolling.
(I vote scrolling for CTRl+F purposes)
Pardon the flame, but all these laws are also good for realizing that a divine power is a hoax as well.
The art of misinformation is similar no matter what the field, whether it's voodoo science or attempting to justify something that can't be proven like the mythology of religion.
MOO3 had copy protection? Only took me an hour to burn and crack it. I don't call that copy protection.
Censoring doesn't help. Kids are smarter than you think.
What the real problem is, is that adults find really horrible things entertaining (World's Scariest Animal Attacks III) that are NOT like real life. (Or at least, I've never been attacked by anything more fierce than a mosquito) It's the media we need to protect the kids from, not real life.
Your real fear is that we're protecting them from their own emotions, and I fear that too.
That's okay, when I lose my job to the Chinese I'll just become an Open Source coder on welfare.
I agree. In fact, I don't understand the whole blogging thing, and I've gotten pretty deep into the cyberworld.
/. story and I didn't stay long.)
Anytime I read an article on blogging, I wonder why:
A:) I've never met anyone personally who talks about them.
and B:) I've never, in all my research and surfing time, come across one. (Other than Dave Barry's, but that was from the
So I think I'll just ignore them until they go away, like I did with the Y2K thing.
but any innovation slowdown in the U.S., coupled with the economic realities of war and the eventual arrival of more overseas competition, will affect CEO jobs, tens of thousands of tech workers, and possibly the entire nation's standard of living.
R2! We're doomed! This is all your fault! Help, I think I'm melting!
Let's just go back to the bartering system. I'm sick of money.
Now what can I get for this nice moist brownie?
Only 10 paperclips? This baby's worth 15!
The ASRG meetings will be held 2-3 times a year generally concurrent with IETF meetings and possibly concurrent with other conferences
Way to get on the ball with those 3 meetings... a year...
I am a born and raised Mainer, thus I must:
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Maine's education system is in terrible shape. Many schools are too small, many teachers are underpaid, and there's little funding for books and repairs for any of the counties here.
Gov. King was not a bad Governer, but his insistance that the state pay money so that middle schoolers could have laptops even stupified my liberal mind.
Those students do not need laptops! They need good teachers! They need nutritious food programs! They need cultural programs! I've spoken with many students who could care less about their laptops. They're in frickin' middle school. Their homework is algebra, not write a ten page research paper.
This was simply a program put in place to show that the state cared about it's education and pretend that their children weren't tools because they could use a laptop, basically a 'I don't know what to do so let's buy something exciting' move.
}
Thank you for your time.
Oh I love trash! I love it because it's trash!
yes, I know I can't write...*sigh*